Alumni Updates February 11 – 17, 2019
2019 Hugyaw Visayas planning. This year’s alumni summer getaway – Hugyaw Visayas – will be held in Tacloban City April 27 – 29 with the Eastern Visayas Alumni Chapters as hosts. Representatives of the Eastern Visayas Chapters held a planning session for the 2019 Hugyaw Visayas at Hotel Alejandro in Tacloban City last Feb 2. Present during the meeting were Tacloban Alumni Chapter president Dr. Miguel T. Udtohan and chapter vice president Jusie Lydia Juanillo Siega-Sur. From the Eastern Samar Alumni Chapter, representatives were Eden Jaboli Varela and Rizalina Urbiztondo, both from Catbalogan, and Carl Daniel Kho from Ormoc. Also in attendance were Tipon Philippines overall chairperson and PRO of Silliman Alumni Association, Inc. (SAAI) Linda Bañas Alvarez, East Visayas Alumni director Leo G. Mamicpic, and Yasmin M. Alih, SAAI national president.
The 2019 Hugyaw Visayas promises to be an exciting, history-rich, three-day experience, as historian Rollie Borinaga will personally lead the Balangiga Bells tour. A tour of the MacArthur Park and the San Juanico Bridge as well as a visit to the mat weavers of Basey are also listed in the tour itinerary.
SAAI PRO Linda Bañas Alvarez will soon be posting updates on 2019 Hugyaw Visayas in the SAAI Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/silliman.SAAI/. You may watch out for these. You may also send her a private message at https://www.facebook.com/linda.b.alvarez.7.
